Abstract
For a given structure made of a perfectly plastic material with a yield stress sY, we consider the load capacity ratio of the structure: the largest positive number C, depending only on the geometry of the structure, which satisfies the following property. For any loading distribution f on the structure whose maximum is fmax, the structure will not undergo plastic collapse as long as fmax ≤ sY C, independently of the distribution of the load. The paper presents the mathematical aspects, related mechanical notions, algorithms and examples corresponding to load capacity ratios of structures.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 77-93 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering |
| Volume | 199 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2009 |
Keywords
- Limit analysis
- Load capacity ratio
- Multi-parameter loading
- Optimization
- Stress analysis
- Structural analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Computer Science Applications
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